From my experience in research, we did also document a lot and were very specific. But we didn’t have anyone inspecting us or our documents, we did it for the sake of honest data that was needed for publication. When publishing, we need unbiased and true data, so we recorded anything and everything we can. We also needed to show that we knew what we were doing so we used protocols and procedures that were proved to work by previous publications. This strengthened the claims of our study. So although, we don’t have the same style of documentations as in industry, we followed strict written procedures and guidelines, we also recorded our procedures well so it could be repeated. So in academia, there is a lot of documentation as well, all for the sake of a good publication.